BRITAIN'S ARMY RIFLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 57, 6 March 1912, Page 5

BRITAIN'S ARMY RIFLE.

. ; I*s 3IGH TRAJECTORY. MUTISTSRS IN DEFENCE. (Received 11.15 a-m.) LONDON, March 5. -•-I" the' House of Commons Col. Seely MUnoer-Seeretary for War), introducing S*J| ra J r estimates, unhesitatingly de3"° that there was not a particle of •.SjVitt the Opposition charges of the ""nontyof the army rifle, which was "£™pwinirily reliable, as was proved in B3K«SulljPAfrican war. The heavy guns, :*wsa..»n4 field artillery, and machine «™«* ere the best in Europe. lTJ 1 the present air battalion would ffSjjffifked by the usw flying corps, erri- ,:«~"* "dojers, sailors, and civilians. £**» proposed to train 180 officers ***«?, and fo purchase 131 aeroplanes. Law repeated that the 2««Mi nfle had an inferior trajectory as 2°P»red With the German. The culpable «y.in improving it was inexcusable. /■■j**" Halda.no (Secretary for War), LW Dg a l uest >°n 'n the House of . ««d if war had come last summer, "mmJalJ* Werior in trajectory, had I *^ B over the German. 'iSiNy said that the training in school on Salisbury Plains *22?'--T "i* o "- The time was not jMrnmg.to fly, which wae learnt ■v S Pw»te aerodromes.